In willa cather's story “a wagner matinee,” what can be compared to “that strange moss which can lie on a dusty shelf half a century and yet, if placed in water, grows green again”?
a. the frontier
b. the aunt
c. the nephew
d. the piano

Choose one of the topics below and use all five sentence patterns in a composition of at least 100 words. return to the lessons "patterns: inverted, compound parts, s/v/do" and "patterns: s/lv/pn, s/lv/pa, s/v/io/do" if you need to review the sentence patterns. you will be graded based on whether all five sentence patterns are present in your work. suggestions for topics: a. what if the sun exploded? b. what if every family owned a helicopter? c. what if each year were six months long instead of twelve? d. what if you were the president of the united states?